Sandra Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 3740592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4526-4272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Older migrants on civic engagement
As the number of people with migrant backgrounds has increased, the need to explore their conceptualizations of civic engagement (CE) has risen. Few have, however, explored how migrants make sense of this notion, and whether their sense-making is related to the civic activities they perform. This is why this paper addresses these knowledge gaps by analysing 60 qualitative interviews with older migrants aged 60 and over in Belgium, Finland, Spain …
Exploring the Landscape of Research on Client Documentation in Social Work: A Scoping Review
Client documentation fulfills a variety of purposes in social work. As research on this topic has steadily increased, so has the need to take stock of what characterizes the literature in this area. This paper presents the results of a scoping review of 490 peer-reviewed articles published in English in this field, with a specific analysis of a subsample ( n = 95) that explicitly focuses on documentation as a research theme and relies on client d…
Pozole, Patasca, and More: Lessons in Representation, Trust and Diversity from Hispanic Research Recruitment
Hispanic families in the U.S. remain underrepresented in health intervention research, despite facing disproportionately high rates of childhood obesity. The objective of this “Report from the Field” is to document the lessons learned from recruiting Hispanic parents for a formative research study on health-related parenting practices to lower the risk for childhood obesity. Guided by a community-engaged research approach, we partnered with a loc…
Predictors of Body Appreciation in Brazilian Girls Aged From Nine to 14 Years
Social pressure toward a certain body standard harms well-being and can lead to psychological distress in adolescent girls. This study investigated self-esteem, eating behavior, age, and body mass index as predictors of body appreciation in 222 Brazilian girls ( M = 11.60, SD = 1.63) who responded to the Body Appreciation Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Children’s Eating Attitudes Test. Self-esteem, body mass index and age account…
Effective Messages to Reduce Stigma among People Newly Diagnosed with HIV during Rapid ART Initiation
HIV stigma has a negative influence on antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and persistence and viral suppression. Immediate access to ART (RAPID ART) has been shown to accelerate viral suppression (VS) that is sustained up to one year after HIV diagnosis. Little is known about the role of RAPID ART in reducing individual-level stigma. We explored how stigma manifests in RAPID ART encounters and whether RAPID ART interventions influence indivi…
Deploying an ageing‐astute lens in migration studies: Current research and future directions
The world continues to experience an unprecedented and sustained change in the age structure of the global population (...) Over the next three decades, the number of older persons [aged 65 years and over] worldwide is projected to more than double, reaching over 1.5 billion in 2050. All regions will see an increase in the size of the older population between 2020 and 2050. (UNDESA, 2020a: 1) In respect of international migration, some 281 millio…
Does Religiosity/Spirituality Play a Role in Function, Pain-Related Beliefs, and Coping in Patients with Chronic Pain? A Systematic Review
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images
Body-positive content on social media offers a promising approach to promote positive body image (PBI). However, we need further research in order to better characterize and understand its nature. This study provides a content analysis of adolescents’ image-based posts on Facebook. We aimed to determine whether the theoretical six-facet conceptualization of PBI was reflected in adolescents’ posts, and whether there were different trends according…
An International Study of Correlates of Women’s Positive Body Image
Positive body image (PBI) has received attention in the recent research literature. Despite this, its role in daily functioning in different cultural contexts, particularly its potential relationship with academic outcomes, is still lacking. This study aimed to offer an international perspective on the association between PBI and body mass index (BMI), perceived academic achievement, and educational aspirations, as well as the mediating role of s…
Othering in Media Representations of Elderly Care: Using the Social Justice Framework to Make Sense of Public Discourses on Migrants and Culture
Population ageing and international migration are two of the major societal trends challenging European elderly care regimes at present. Virtually no research has addressed how public discourses about the implications of these trends for elderly care are shaped in different countries. This article addresses this knowledge gap, examining how Swedish daily newspaper (SvD and DN) reporting on elderly care between 1995 and 2017 (N=370) depicts the im…
Dokumentationens roll för klientskapande processer i äldreinriktat socialt arbete: Spelar utlandsfödd bakgrund, kön och ålder någon roll
Baserat på en explorativ studie behandlar denna artikel frågan om utrikesfödd bakgrund, kön och ålder har någon betydelse för behovsbedömningsdokumentation inom svensk äldreomsorg. Med hjälp av kvantitativ innehållsanalys och multipel logistisk regressionsanalys av akter (n=202) innehållande utredningar (n=489) av ansökningar om välfärdstjänster, undersöker denna studie om identifikationsgrunder för äldre har någon betydelse för dokumentationspra…
O papel da imagem corporal positiva na qualidade de vida de pessoas com insuficiência renal crónica
Este estudo pretende explorar o papel da imagem corporal positiva (ICP) na qualidade de vida (QdV) de pessoas com insuficiência renal crónica (IRC). A recolha de dados foi efetuada através de instrumentos de autorrelato que permitiram a contemplação das variáveis sociodemográficas, de algumas dimensões da ICP e da QdV, num grupo clínico (n = 46; M = 59,8 anos) e num grupo não clínico (n = 49; M = 55,1 anos) de participantes. Percebeu-se que as vá…
Migrant care workers in elderly care: What a study of media representations suggests about Sweden as a caring democracy
This article sheds light on the ways in which migrant care workers in the elderly care sector were represented in Swedish daily newspaper articles published between 1995 and 2017 (n = 370); it uses the notions of the “ethics of care” and “caring democracy” as a prism through which the findings can be made sense of. By bringing attention to the fact that they are often described as the solution par excellence to the staffing crisis Swedish elderly…
A Comprehensive Assessment of Food Parenting Practices: Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the HomeSTEAD Family Food Practices Survey and Associations with Children’s Weight and Food…
The Home Self-Administered Tool for Environmental Assessment of Activity and Diet (HomeSTEAD) survey evaluates a broad spectrum of food parenting practices related to parental use of control, autonomy support, and structure. This study aims to test the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the HomeSTEAD family food practices survey in parents of 3–12 year old children. Data were collected from 184 parents/caregivers. We performed a…
A Mobile-Based Tailored Recommendation System for Parents of Children with Overweight or Obesity: A New Tool for Health Care Centers
Childhood obesity is associated with unbalanced lifestyle patterns, and new strategies are needed to support parents in the compliance with the guidelines for children’s age. Tailored automatic recommendations mimic interpersonal counseling and are promising strategies to be considered for health promotion programs. This study aimed to develop and test a mobile recommendation system for parents of preschool children identified with overweight/obe…
Racialization Without Racism in Scholarship on Old Age
Population aging and international migration have propelled the aging of ethno-cultural minorities to the forefront of social scientific inquiries. Examining how scholarship on old age makes sense of ethnicity and race has become relevant. Based on a scoping review of peer-reviewed articles published between 1998 and 2017 (n = 336), the present article asks whether the notions of racialization and racism inform this scholarship and argues that a …
Cultural Diversity and Aging: Ethnicity, Race, and Minorities
Sociological conceptualizations of what it means to have an ethnic and racial minority status, and of how these identification grounds affect our lives, have evolved over the past five decades. These advancements have also had implications for how sociologists make sense of the challenges and opportunities that cultural diversity entails. Research on aging that focuses on (national) culture, ethnicity, race, minorities, and diversity has yet to b…
Conditions for Religious Pluralism in Swedish Hospital Chaplaincy: A Research Note
Research interest in hospital chaplaincy has increased, in part because it is believed to contribute to the development of just models of religious pluralism. This research note brings attention to hospital chaplaincy in Sweden, a country where religious diversity has substantially increased due to migration but where research in hospital chaplaincy is scarce. In order to advocate for future research, this research note describes the organization…
Introduction: Expanding the gerontological imagination through the study of older migrants
Older migrants' civic participation: A topic in need of attention
Ideology, power and inclusion: Using the critical perspective to study how older ICT users make sense of digitisation
Critical Internet and media scholarship has primarily focused on contributing to theoretical debates within the field of media and communications but few empirical studies have applied this theoretical approach. This article uses data on older active ICT users’ understandings of digitisation. It draws inspiration from Boltanski’s pragmatist sociology of critique and the notion that people’s own take on their situation are fruitful sources of info…
The 'Other' in End-of-life Care: Providers' Understandings of Patients with Migrant Backgrounds
Research on how end-of-life care providers make sense of cultural, ethnic and religious diversity is relatively scarce. This article explores end-of-life care providers’ understandings of patients with migrant backgrounds through a study based on focus group interviews. The analysis brings to the fore three themes: the expectation that the existence of difference and uncertainty is a given when caring for patients with migrant backgrounds; the ex…
The divide within: Older active ICT users position themselves against different ‘Others’
Expanding the gerontological imagination on ethnicity: Conceptual and theoretical perspectives
The globalisation of international migration has increased the ethnic diversity of most ageing populations across the Western world. This has implications for gerontological research, policy and practice, and puts our understandings of ethnicity to the test. This paper presents the different perspectives that inform ethnicity scholarship (the essentialist/primordial perspective, the structuralist/circumstantialist perspective and social construct…
Care managers' experiences of cross-cultural needs assessment meetings: The case of late-in-life immigrants
Research on care managers' experiences of the needs assessment process is scarce even though the literature on needs assessment practice is relatively extensive. One of the research areas that has not received attention yet is the way in which care managers experience the challenges that are presumably posed by increased ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity among prospective elder care recipients. This article addresses this resea…
The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe
This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of th…
A culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful ageing
In spite of the many studies conducted over the past decades, the field of inquiry known as cross-cultural gerontology remains atheoretical. This is because of its shortcomings in generating culturally-relevant theoretical frameworks of its own. In this article, I address this failure and adapt Kluckhohn's model of value orientations for use in the study of ageing-related concepts. I discuss possible applications of the adapted model and, in part…
Elderly Immigrants in Sweden: Otherness' Under Construction
Informed by a social constructionist approach, this article reviews and evaluates the research literature on elderly immigrants in Sweden, shedding light on how a specific category is created and comes to be regarded as a social problem. There is a pervasive ‘problematisation’ of elderly immigrants in Sweden. The paper argues that a social category of ‘elderly immigrants’ has been constructed among those concerned with elderly care and policy, ev…
Expanding the gerontological imagination on ethnicity: Conceptual and theoretical perspectives
The globalisation of international migration has increased the ethnic diversity of most ageing populations across the Western world. This has implications for gerontological research, policy and practice, and puts our understandings of ethnicity to the test. This paper presents the different perspectives that inform ethnicity scholarship (the essentialist/primordial perspective, the structuralist/circumstantialist perspective and social construct…
Understandings of successful ageing in the context of migration: The case of Iranian immigrants in Sweden
Gerontological inquiries into understandings of successful ageing have been culture-specific. This means that they have only been studied in the specific cultural settings that have given them their meaning. Understandings of successful ageing that are simultaneously influenced by two cultures have yet to be studied. This study is based on a newly-designed culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful ageing, and focuses o…
The divide within: Older active ICT users position themselves against different ‘Others’
Being, feeling and acting: A qualitative study of Swedish home-help care recipients' understandings of dependence and independence
A Preliminary Empirical Test of a Culturally-Relevant Theoretical Framework for the Study of Successful Aging
Social work, older people and migration: An overview of the situation in Sweden
The globalisation of international migration is challenging social work practice in general and elder care in particular all across Europe. This article gives insight into social work practice with elderly people in Sweden by focusing on older migrants and their families. The article addresses the changes that Swedish elder care has undergone through the past few decades and how elder care is organised. The cases of two migrant families who care …
Different Ways of Understanding the Construct of Successful Aging: Iranian Immigrants Speak About What Aging Well Means to Them
Speaking of ‘limitations’ while trying to disregard them: A qualitative study of how diminished everyday competence and aging can be regarded
"Relational Values and Ideas Regarding "Successful Aging
This paper is concerned with the manner in which people make sense of one of gerontology's most debated constructs - successful aging. Gerontologists agree that, as a construct, successful aging is determined by cultural values. In practice, however, the gerontological debate equates successful aging with the delay of the aging process; activity; a future- orientation and managing on one's own. It is this last assumption - the one associated with…
An introduction to ‘the age of migration’ and its consequences for the field of gerontological social work
Vignette Methodology and Culture-Relevance: Lessons Learned through a Project on Successful Aging with Iranian Immigrants to Sweden
Older migrants' civic participation: A topic in need of attention
Racialization Without Racism in Scholarship on Old Age
Population aging and international migration have propelled the aging of ethno-cultural minorities to the forefront of social scientific inquiries. Examining how scholarship on old age makes sense of ethnicity and race has become relevant. Based on a scoping review of peer-reviewed articles published between 1998 and 2017 (n = 336), the present article asks whether the notions of racialization and racism inform this scholarship and argues that a …
Variations in subjective well-being when ‘aging in place’ — A matter of acceptance, predictability and control
Ideology, power and inclusion: Using the critical perspective to study how older ICT users make sense of digitisation
Critical Internet and media scholarship has primarily focused on contributing to theoretical debates within the field of media and communications but few empirical studies have applied this theoretical approach. This article uses data on older active ICT users’ understandings of digitisation. It draws inspiration from Boltanski’s pragmatist sociology of critique and the notion that people’s own take on their situation are fruitful sources of info…
Othering in Media Representations of Elderly Care: Using the Social Justice Framework to Make Sense of Public Discourses on Migrants and Culture
Population ageing and international migration are two of the major societal trends challenging European elderly care regimes at present. Virtually no research has addressed how public discourses about the implications of these trends for elderly care are shaped in different countries. This article addresses this knowledge gap, examining how Swedish daily newspaper (SvD and DN) reporting on elderly care between 1995 and 2017 (N=370) depicts the im…
Cultural Diversity and Aging: Ethnicity, Race, and Minorities
Sociological conceptualizations of what it means to have an ethnic and racial minority status, and of how these identification grounds affect our lives, have evolved over the past five decades. These advancements have also had implications for how sociologists make sense of the challenges and opportunities that cultural diversity entails. Research on aging that focuses on (national) culture, ethnicity, race, minorities, and diversity has yet to b…
Care managers' experiences of cross-cultural needs assessment meetings: The case of late-in-life immigrants
Research on care managers' experiences of the needs assessment process is scarce even though the literature on needs assessment practice is relatively extensive. One of the research areas that has not received attention yet is the way in which care managers experience the challenges that are presumably posed by increased ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity among prospective elder care recipients. This article addresses this resea…
Deploying an ageing‐astute lens in migration studies: Current research and future directions
The world continues to experience an unprecedented and sustained change in the age structure of the global population (...) Over the next three decades, the number of older persons [aged 65 years and over] worldwide is projected to more than double, reaching over 1.5 billion in 2050. All regions will see an increase in the size of the older population between 2020 and 2050. (UNDESA, 2020a: 1) In respect of international migration, some 281 millio…
The 'Other' in End-of-life Care: Providers' Understandings of Patients with Migrant Backgrounds
Research on how end-of-life care providers make sense of cultural, ethnic and religious diversity is relatively scarce. This article explores end-of-life care providers’ understandings of patients with migrant backgrounds through a study based on focus group interviews. The analysis brings to the fore three themes: the expectation that the existence of difference and uncertainty is a given when caring for patients with migrant backgrounds; the ex…
A culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful ageing
In spite of the many studies conducted over the past decades, the field of inquiry known as cross-cultural gerontology remains atheoretical. This is because of its shortcomings in generating culturally-relevant theoretical frameworks of its own. In this article, I address this failure and adapt Kluckhohn's model of value orientations for use in the study of ageing-related concepts. I discuss possible applications of the adapted model and, in part…
Understandings of successful ageing in the context of migration: The case of Iranian immigrants in Sweden
Gerontological inquiries into understandings of successful ageing have been culture-specific. This means that they have only been studied in the specific cultural settings that have given them their meaning. Understandings of successful ageing that are simultaneously influenced by two cultures have yet to be studied. This study is based on a newly-designed culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful ageing, and focuses o…
"Relational Values and Ideas Regarding "Successful Aging
This paper is concerned with the manner in which people make sense of one of gerontology's most debated constructs - successful aging. Gerontologists agree that, as a construct, successful aging is determined by cultural values. In practice, however, the gerontological debate equates successful aging with the delay of the aging process; activity; a future- orientation and managing on one's own. It is this last assumption - the one associated with…
A Preliminary Empirical Test of a Culturally-Relevant Theoretical Framework for the Study of Successful Aging
The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe
This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of th…
Making Sense of Illness: Late-in-Life Migration as Point of Departure for Elderly Iranian Immigrants’ Explanatory Models of Illness
Speaking of ‘limitations’ while trying to disregard them: A qualitative study of how diminished everyday competence and aging can be regarded
Elderly Immigrants in Sweden: Otherness' Under Construction
Informed by a social constructionist approach, this article reviews and evaluates the research literature on elderly immigrants in Sweden, shedding light on how a specific category is created and comes to be regarded as a social problem. There is a pervasive ‘problematisation’ of elderly immigrants in Sweden. The paper argues that a social category of ‘elderly immigrants’ has been constructed among those concerned with elderly care and policy, ev…
Different Ways of Understanding the Construct of Successful Aging: Iranian Immigrants Speak About What Aging Well Means to Them
Beroende eller oberoende: En kvalitativ studie av hur äldre hjälptagare ser på att ha hjälp och stöd
Dependency or independence? A qualitative study of how elderly home-help recipients regard having help and supportKnowledge on elderly people’s understandings of dependence and independence is relatively scarce even though there is plenty of gerontological research on related topics. Although we know how to define and measure different types of dependency, we know, in fact, very little about how elderly home-help recipients themselves regard thei…
Being, feeling and acting: A qualitative study of Swedish home-help care recipients' understandings of dependence and independence
Vignette Methodology and Culture-Relevance: Lessons Learned through a Project on Successful Aging with Iranian Immigrants to Sweden
Social work, older people and migration: An overview of the situation in Sweden
The globalisation of international migration is challenging social work practice in general and elder care in particular all across Europe. This article gives insight into social work practice with elderly people in Sweden by focusing on older migrants and their families. The article addresses the changes that Swedish elder care has undergone through the past few decades and how elder care is organised. The cases of two migrant families who care …
O consumo de tabaco numa instituição universitária: Prevalência e características do fumador
O tabagismo tem-se revelado como um grande inimigo da saúde pública e concomitantemente como um dos comportamentos mais difíceis de mudar. Muitos fumadores adquirem uma dependência fisiológica da nicotina associada ao “hábito” o que pode provocar uma síndrome de abstinência difícil de ultrapassar. Os processos neurobiológicos da nicotina têm vindo a ser amplamente estudados e tornando-se parcialmente responsáveis pelas reduzidas taxas de cessação…
An introduction to ‘the age of migration’ and its consequences for the field of gerontological social work
Variations in subjective well-being when ‘aging in place’ — A matter of acceptance, predictability and control
Medierepresentationer av etnicitetsochmigrationsrelaterade frågor inomäldreomsorgen i Sverige och Finland
Media representations of ethnicity- and migration-related issues within the elderly care in Sweden and FinlandResearch on welfare regimes and migration regimes has shown that Sweden and Finland have similar elderly care regimes but different migration regimes. It is against this backdrop that we set out to study what Swedish and Finnish daily press focusing on elderly care has written about ethnic minorities, migrants and migration. The study use…
Individualizing Standardized Tests: Physiotherapists’ and Occupational Therapists’ Test Practices in a Geriatric Setting
In assessing geriatric patients' functional status, health care professionals use a number of standardized tests. These tests have defined administration procedures that restrict communication and interaction with patients. In this article, we explore the experiences of occupational therapists and physiotherapists acting as standardized test administrators. Drawing on fieldwork, interviews with physiotherapists and occupational therapists, and ob…
The divide within: Older active ICT users position themselves against different ‘Others’
Expanding the gerontological imagination on ethnicity: Conceptual and theoretical perspectives
The globalisation of international migration has increased the ethnic diversity of most ageing populations across the Western world. This has implications for gerontological research, policy and practice, and puts our understandings of ethnicity to the test. This paper presents the different perspectives that inform ethnicity scholarship (the essentialist/primordial perspective, the structuralist/circumstantialist perspective and social construct…
Care managers' experiences of cross-cultural needs assessment meetings: The case of late-in-life immigrants
Research on care managers' experiences of the needs assessment process is scarce even though the literature on needs assessment practice is relatively extensive. One of the research areas that has not received attention yet is the way in which care managers experience the challenges that are presumably posed by increased ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity among prospective elder care recipients. This article addresses this resea…
The 'Other' in End-of-life Care: Providers' Understandings of Patients with Migrant Backgrounds
Research on how end-of-life care providers make sense of cultural, ethnic and religious diversity is relatively scarce. This article explores end-of-life care providers’ understandings of patients with migrant backgrounds through a study based on focus group interviews. The analysis brings to the fore three themes: the expectation that the existence of difference and uncertainty is a given when caring for patients with migrant backgrounds; the ex…
Ideology, power and inclusion: Using the critical perspective to study how older ICT users make sense of digitisation
Critical Internet and media scholarship has primarily focused on contributing to theoretical debates within the field of media and communications but few empirical studies have applied this theoretical approach. This article uses data on older active ICT users’ understandings of digitisation. It draws inspiration from Boltanski’s pragmatist sociology of critique and the notion that people’s own take on their situation are fruitful sources of info…
Conditions for Religious Pluralism in Swedish Hospital Chaplaincy: A Research Note
Research interest in hospital chaplaincy has increased, in part because it is believed to contribute to the development of just models of religious pluralism. This research note brings attention to hospital chaplaincy in Sweden, a country where religious diversity has substantially increased due to migration but where research in hospital chaplaincy is scarce. In order to advocate for future research, this research note describes the organization…
Introduction: Expanding the gerontological imagination through the study of older migrants
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (22 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (10 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (10 works)